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In comp.os.linux.misc Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> I came to the sad realization that my job was to keep salesmen's 
> promises for them.  I left that outfit the second time we wound up 
> eating a man-year doing this - and it was the same salesman both 
> times.

The sales staff, left to their own accords, would promise to a customer 
that the new product would convert lead into gold and never understand 
why the "dev shop" that now has to build that mythical alchemy machine 
is complaining to no end about the deal they (the salesman) just cut.